Posted on 04/01/2015 9:25:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was born in 1970, six years after events refuted a theory on which he is wagering his candidacy.
The 1964 theory was that many millions of conservatives abstained from voting because the Republican Party did not nominate sufficiently deep-dyed conservatives. So if in 1964 the party would choose someone like Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, hitherto dormant conservatives would join the electorate in numbers sufficient for victory.
This theory was slain by a fact actually, 15,951,378 facts. That was the difference between the 43,129,566 votes that President Lyndon Johnson received and the 27,178,188 that Goldwater got in winning six states.
The sensible reason for nominating Goldwater was not because he could win: As Goldwater understood, Americans still recovering from the Kennedy assassination were not going to have a third president in 14 months. The realistic reason was to turn the GOP into a conservative weapon for a future assault on the ramparts of power.
Hence in September 1964, William F. Buckley told an audience of young conservatives to anticipate Goldwater's defeat because he had been nominated "before we had time properly to prepare the ground." Goldwater's candidacy had, however, planted "seeds of hope, which will flower on a great November day in the future." Sixteen Novembers later, they did.
Today, however, there is no need to nominate Cruz in order to make the GOP conservative. Cruz sits in a Senate that has no Republicans akin to the liberals Goldwater served with New York's Jacob Javits, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, Illinois' Charles Percy, New Jersey's Clifford Case, California's Thomas Kuchel.
When Jeb Bush, the most conservative governor of a large state since Ronald Reagan (by some metrics taxes, school choice Bush was a more conservative governor than Reagan), is called a threat to conservatism...
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That's ok, mine is too. Cruz or forget it.
/johnny
You are a zealot for sure LOL
I don’t know how to play solitaire.
“I don’t know about that, but he’s certainly the Republican doing what others won’t.”
Love your comment, 86!
George needs to change his middle name to “Pretzel”.
Maybe labels have changed...
To me,
Jeb is a liberal Republican. Others fall into this category (several others).
Cruz is a Conservative Republican. Others fall into this category (not so many though).
Republican (it’s meaning) has changed considerably.
Democrat (has changed to Progressive).
Goldwater speech..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzrHR9-LdTM
Only someone truly inspirational (like Cruz) can break up the Obama coalition and reshuffle the map enough to ensure a Republican victory. ANY candidate put forward by the Republicans that tries to play it safe with a 50+1 strategy is doomed to fail.
right
That may be true.
But the problem today is that the likes of McCain, McConnell and the party establishment have no ideology. They aren't liberal, they aren't conservative. They're conniving, self-serving, compliant...and ultimately corrupt.
Confronted by an intensely partisan and un-American Democrat party, they are being slowly co-opted and subsequently subsumed.
Will, having lived beside them in DC for so long, can't see this.
Today, however, there is no need to nominate Cruz in order to make the GOP conservative. Cruz sits in a Senate that has no Republicans akin to the liberals Goldwater served with New York’s Jacob Javits, Massachusetts’ Edward Brooke, Illinois’ Charles Percy, New Jersey’s Clifford Case, California’s Thomas Kuchel.
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Oops. Georgie needs to do his homework. He can start by typing the following into Google:
Mark Kirk wiki
I’m sure there are other examples. How about the Senate Majority Leader?
We will come.
If someone like George F. Will can’t see that Jeb Bush will LOSE simply because he’s a Bush — and I’m not saying that’s good or bad, simply that it’s true — then I question the rest of his analysis.
It’s funny to listen to the talkings heads draw all sorts of inferences about the inelectability of Conservatives based on Goldwater’s shellacking. Goldwater lost for one reason and one reason only: the assassination of JFK.
LBJ was going to slaughter whomever the GOP nominated no matter what.
George Will always supports the GOPe. No surprise here.
He is positively predictable and rarely adds anything new to a discussion.
Bush will not be POTUS. It isn’t just his name, it’s his progressive agenda.
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